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Supermarkets on pub sites are creating traffic hazards

4:58pm Friday 14th June 2013

WITH the increased use of pub sites for metro styled shops, I wonder who studied traffic management on the city council, who gave permission for such development without reasonable study.

Pensions Bill threatens the bereaved

5:05pm Friday 14th June 2013

I AM very concerned about the changes to Bereavement Benefits included in the Pensions Bill, which has its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday.

Dimming lights counter to £200m safer streets’ plan

5:04pm Friday 14th June 2013

IT’S not that long ago that we welcomed the £200m investment in street lighting, all agreeing you cannot put a price on safety – after all, this new scheme is going to light up, and provide extra security all over Southampton.

Public service workers need protection

5:02pm Friday 14th June 2013

RECENTLY, three railway station staff were assaulted at Bournemouth station while carrying out their duties on the platform. The assaults, both verbal and physical, included being spat at, scratched and bitten.

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Labour will be selecting the new candidate on merit

5:01pm Friday 14th June 2013

WITH regard to the selection of a candidate to replace John Denham, Southampton Labour Party can do without the unsolicited advice of Paul Wheeler (Daily Echo, Letters June 5), or anyone else for that matter.

Take up the longest day golfing challenge

5:01pm Friday 14th June 2013

I HAVE faced some tough challenges in my career, but my love of the game I play for a living has always got me through.

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Please fight the fracking

5:01pm Friday 14th June 2013

FRACKING – somehow this must stop!

Catastrophic oversight by ward councillors

5:00pm Friday 14th June 2013

STEVEN GALTON is selective in his presentation of the facts in relation to the sulphur plant debate at the council’s recent planning panel.

Tories should be questioning their inaction

4:58pm Friday 14th June 2013

OH dear, my letter regarding the Tories’ inaction and blunders regarding the application by Oxbow for a sulphur plant, pictured above, in the docks seems to have struck a nerve.

Parking mistake cost couple a £75 fine on wedding anniversary

4:45pm Thursday 13th June 2013

MY husband and I decided to celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary with a nice meal at an old haunt in Southampton.

Distressing news of veterans harmed by benefits crackdown

4:45pm Thursday 13th June 2013

RECENT news that disabled war veterans are being are being ‘humiliated’ by the benefits crackdown is distressing.

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Partnerships are key to success in education

4:46pm Thursday 13th June 2013

AFTER three decades of being a councillor, it never ceases to amaze me that almost everyday brings a new challenge or experience.

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Mix up over BT broadband and ebilling password

4:44pm Thursday 13th June 2013

I WONDER if other readers have come across similar experiences with BT.

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Why have new jobs figures changed?

4:44pm Thursday 13th June 2013

I HAVE received my copy of Eastleigh News, the regular periodical from the Council.

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Using word ‘green’ is excuse to get money

4:43pm Thursday 13th June 2013

ACCORDING to Mr Cox, the renewable energy subsidy will add £63 to average household energy bills because The Department of Energy and Climate Change says so.

Animal Aid thanks after street collection

4:43pm Thursday 13th June 2013

ANIMAL AID would like to thank the people of Shirley, Southampton for their generosity in raising £86.57 at a street collection on Saturday, May 11 2013.

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Brickwork repairs on footbridge done well

4:42pm Thursday 13th June 2013

I WOULD like to express my appreciation to the workmen who repaired some of the brickwork on the Mount Pleasant Road footbridge.

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More changes being made by First Bus

4:42pm Thursday 13th June 2013

I SHOULD like to bring to the attention of your readership the amount of changes which First Bus are bringing to the neighbourhoods.

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First Bus should think about how cuts will hit elderly passengers

4:41pm Thursday 13th June 2013

FIRST Bus, in their infinite wisdom, have axed all buses to Lordshill North.

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Safety campaign goes on in memory of Mark

4:38pm Thursday 13th June 2013

SOUTHAMPTON Cycling Campaign would like to thank all those cyclists who joined the first annual Mark Brummell memorial ride (the Brummell Bummel) on May 26 to celebrate the life of a truly remarkable man who enriched the lives of all who knew him.

Lashing out at UKIP

4:39pm Thursday 13th June 2013

LASHING out at UKIP, D R Smith clearly cannot wait for the final meltdown of whatever sovereignty Britain has left, stating that, as “immigration...will almost certainly increase, we had better get used to it”. What defeatist nonsense.

City centre pavements are in a ‘disgusting’ state

4:36pm Thursday 13th June 2013

A fortnight ago the mother of my daughter-in-law had a very bad fall in Southampton, resulting in a chipped front tooth, split lip and numerous bruises.

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Litter spoils common

4:37pm Thursday 13th June 2013

ONE of the joys of the weekend is an early morning walk on Southampton Common, pictured.

A sad statistic

4:35pm Thursday 13th June 2013

WHAT A very sad statistic from the national press, that nine out of ten babies born this year to cohabitating parents will see them break-up before they are 16.

Disastrous move

4:33pm Thursday 13th June 2013

QUITE disastrous – Morrisons to take over the Blockbuster store in Portswood (Daily Echo, June 7).

What a lot of hot air over wind farms

4:35pm Thursday 13th June 2013

MARTIN Heath tells us (Daily Echo, June 3) that wind farms are one of the cheapest forms of energy. What utter nonsense!

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Fracking not a danger to the environment

4:32pm Thursday 13th June 2013

CE Watts (Fracking our way to destruction? Letters, June 6) gives us his deeply informed view of fracking, no doubt based on his years of experience working with the technology.

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Thanks for my prize

4:33pm Thursday 13th June 2013

A BELATED thank you for the two tickets which I won in the Daily Echo competition to see Birds of a Feather at the Mayflower theatre in May.

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This is not the UKIP we recognise

4:39pm Thursday 13th June 2013

MAY I take this opportunity to respond to D R Smith’s misinformed article (In my view June 4)?

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Do parties have a cultural death wish?

4:32pm Thursday 13th June 2013

DESMOND Swayne MP, in his defence of Islam (Daily Echo, May 31), loftily dismisses a few “churchy” folk who send him “considered but misguided stuff peppered with quotes taken out of context from the Koran...”

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Britain should be proud of its contribution to the EU

10:29am Tuesday 11th June 2013

With loud voices calling for Britain to leave the European Union it's time to nail my colours to the mast.

Find out more about change to benefits

10:30am Tuesday 11th June 2013

YESTERDAY Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was scrapped for new claims by disabled people aged 16 and over and replaced by a new disability benefit called the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

We enjoyed SeaCity museum

10:28am Tuesday 11th June 2013

I HAVE read with interest the letter from Phil Woodward (Letters, June 6) regarding the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.

Supervision needed to clean up service area

10:29am Tuesday 11th June 2013

WITH reference to the letter (Echo, June 3) about the litter at Ower service area, I often have met drivers at the lorry park to hand over documents and the litter problem is truely appalling.

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Belting out a lullaby is simply hitting all the wrong notes

10:28am Tuesday 11th June 2013

I HAVE been known to sing – probably not too fortunate for those who are within earshot – but basically I can carry a tune.

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Park name

10:27am Tuesday 11th June 2013

RE Councillor Jeremy Moulton’s letter and a new name for the former Civil Service Ground in Malmesbury Road, Southampton, can I put my offer in the ring (or hat) and suggest “Malmesbury Park”?

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Turbines can have a majestic beauty

10:26am Tuesday 11th June 2013

I HAVE read with interest the correspondence about the possible wind turbine site at Bullington Cross.

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Mean-spirited, just like Oxford Uni

10:25am Tuesday 11th June 2013

ALL four contributions on the subject of how Oxford University might honour Margaret Thatcher (Letters, June 3) were small-minded and mean-spirited, just like her old university’s treatment of the former Prime Minister when it voted against her receiving an honorary doctorate back in 1985.

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Changes bring more people to enjoy Dip

11:19am Monday 10th June 2013

I ATTENDED the Daisy Dip launch event in Swaythling. We were celebrating all the changes that have happened over the last three years to make the Dip a family-friendly, welcoming green space.

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Early results look positive for scheme

11:24am Monday 10th June 2013

THE report ‘Scheme praised despite no change’ (Daily Echo, May 31) did not mention that Hampshire has made good progress supporting more than 400 families through the Troubled Families Programme.

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See sense on specs prices

11:23am Monday 10th June 2013

Unfortunately I have now reached the age where I need varifocal glasses.

Is bus too much to ask for?

11:21am Monday 10th June 2013

ON Friday, May 31 my friends and I were sat in the sun in Shirley Precinct when we were approached by someone canvassing for the Labour Party.

Cancer research still needs to use animals

11:23am Monday 10th June 2013

I would like to join S Clayton in congratulating Jean Bayliss on her recovery from cancer (Daily Echo, May 20).

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Dismay at dead hedgehogs

11:21am Monday 10th June 2013

I KNOW just how David and Fran Carpenter feel about the culling of badgers, (Letters, May 23), as I had a similar cause for dismay recently, on reading a letter in the Daily Mail from a West Countryman, who, on a country walk, found no fewer than nine dead hedgehogs that had been disemboweled by badgers.

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A matter of conscience

11:19am Monday 10th June 2013

THE subject of a vote on same-sex marriages is now on the cards.

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Thanks for helping mum after her fall

11:20am Monday 10th June 2013

I would like to thank all the passers-by who attended when my mother had a serious fall near to the Bargate on Saturday, June 1.

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Longest work day

11:18am Monday 10th June 2013

THIS year the longest day falls on a working day (Friday, June 21).

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Fairway to clear up golfing confusion

11:13am Monday 10th June 2013

WITH reference to the articles regarding Fairthorne Manor Golf Club in Botley, I would like to clarify one or two points.

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Council’s plan for superstore is disastrous

4:50pm Friday 7th June 2013

HAS Southampton City Council really given permission for Morrisons to open yet another food store in Portswood, on the old Blockbuster site?

‘Instead of moaning ask for better cycling provision’

4:49pm Friday 7th June 2013

In reply to J Josey, North Baddesley – as far as I can see (and I’ve just searched on the council’s website for this) Castle Lane is NOT a cycle path.

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